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Zeitgeist - How Ideas Travel - Politics, Culture and the Public in the Age of Revolution (Hardcover)
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Zeitgeist - How Ideas Travel - Politics, Culture and the Public in the Age of Revolution (Hardcover)
Series: Culture & Conflict
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This book investigates the emergence of the modern concept of
zeitgeist, the notion of a pervasive contemporary coherence, in the
late 18th century. It traces zeitgeist's descent from genius
saeculi and investigates its association with public spirit and
public opinion before surveying its prominence around the Wars of
Liberation in Germany and during the politically restless 1820s in
England. This trajectory shows that zeitgeist emerged from the
18th-century discourses about culture and the public functioning of
social collectives. Under the impact of the French Revolution the
term came to describe social processes of political and cultural
challenge. Zeitgeist was discussed as a social dynamic in which
emerging elites disseminate new ideas which find enough public
approval to influence cultural and political behaviour and
practice. These findings modify the view that zeitgeist eludes
critical grasp and is mainly invoked for manipulative purposes by
showing that the zeitgeist discussions around 1800 contributed to
the formation of modern politics and capture key aspects of how
ideas are disseminated within societies and across borders,
providing a way of reading history horizontally.
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